ISLAMABAD: Federal Government under the supervision ministry of interior has decided to conduct national drug survey in the country after 11 years.
Under the National Drug Survey, data will be collected from people who use drugs across the country. The data will also be collected from educational institutions, slums and other places.
To complete the national mission of protecting the new generation from drugs, a meeting of the Committee for National Drug Survey was held under the chairmanship of Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi.
Federal Anti-Narcotics Minister Mohsin Naqvi said that the National Drug Survey should be comprehensive and authentic in every case. Only with an authentic and comprehensive survey will it be possible to make comprehensive and detailed decisions in the field of anti-narcotics. There will be no compromise on anti-narcotics because it is the future of the nation is on stake.
Mohsin Naqvi further said that ANF and Pakistan Bureau of Statistics should jointly formulate the methodology, nature of required data, sample format, and timeline for conducting the survey. International development organizations should also be contacted for cooperation in conducting the survey.
Remember that the last National Drug Survey was conducted in 2013.
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On the other hand, US State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) had jointly launched the National Drug Use Survey on October 26, 2022, during Shehbaz Sharif’s first stint as prime minister, and the work on the same was still under way.
